Ferrer Leads Noles with Three Hits
4/4/2023 10:00:32 PM | Baseball
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Florida State’s bullpen allowed just one run over 8.1 innings Tuesday, but Jacksonville’s earned a 5-4 win after a first-inning grand slam at Dick Howser Stadium. A solo home run for the Dolphins in the fifth inning proved to be the game-winner.
Down 4-0, Andrew Armstrong came in relief and pitched a career high 4.1 innings, allowing just one run and striking out a career-high six.
Brennen Oxford and Doug Kirkland each pitched 2.0 innings; Oxford struck out five batters, while Kirkland struck out the side in the eighth and faced the minimum.
At the plate, Florida State out-hit the Dolphins, 10-7, with six doubles. Jaime Ferrer led the way with three hits – including a pair of doubles and an RBI single in the ninth inning to provide the final margin. He extended his hitting streak to 19 games, the longest for a Seminole in nearly 10 years.
DeAmez Ross had two hits, his second leading off the ninth inning. Freshmen Titan Kamaka, Ben Barrett and Cam Smith had doubles, as did Jordan Carrion, who now has nine on the season.
SCORING SUMMARY:
T1 | JU 4, FSU 0 Howard home run, Armstrong, McIntosh & Wetterau scored
B2 | JU 4, FSU 1 Carrion doubled, B. Barrett scored
B4 | JU 4, FSU 2 Ross singled, B. Barrett scored
T5 | JU 5, FSU 2 Armstrong home run
B8 | JU 5, FSU 3 Carrion grounded out, Moore scored
B9 | JU 5, FSU 4 Ferrer singled, Ross scored
UP NEXT:
Florida State hosts Clemson for a three-game series beginning Thursday night at 8:00 p.m. Thursday’s game will air nationally on ACC Network, with former Seminole Devon Travis on the call.
OF NOTE:
- Jaime Ferrer doubled in the third inning, extending his hitting streak to a career-long 19 games. It is tied for the 24th-longest in program history, and the longest for a Seminole in nearly 10 years.
- During his hitting streak that began on March 4, Ferrer is 32-for-80 (.400) with 12 runs, 15 RBI, eight doubles, two home runs and four walks.
- McGwire Holbrook made his third start of the season, and first behind the plate. Colton Vincent started the first 27 games of the season, and 35 consecutive dating to last season. Holbrook singled in the eighth inning; Vincent was intentionally walked in the ninth inning.
- Titan Kamaka, Ben Barrett and Cam Smith hit their fourth doubles of the year, most among FSU freshmen. The Noles first four hits – and six of 10 in the game – were doubles: Ferrer (2), Jordan Carrion, Kamaka, Barrett, Smith.
- Ferrer (12) and Carrion (9) are first and second on the team in doubles.
- For his second consecutive outing, junior Andrew Armstrong set a career-high for innings pitched. He threw 4.1 innings Tuesday after tossing 3.0 innings Saturday at Miami. Armstrong’s six strikeouts Tuesday were also a career high.
- Treyton Rank walked twice, his first career game with multiple base on balls.
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